Senior Software Engineer (Site Reliability Engineering)

Ovii's Interpretation of the Role

We seek a senior software engineer focused on site reliability engineering to build, debug, and optimize production services. The role blends software development with infrastructure expertise to improve reliability, performance, and observability for critical financial‑services APIs.

Role Snapshot

• Senior SRE Engineer
• Production code author
• Reliability & performance champion
• Cross‑team collaborator
• Incident response participant
• Observability & monitoring builder

Must-Have Requirements

• Python or Go
• PostgreSQL
• Kubernetes
• Docker
• Observability platforms (Datadog, Prometheus, CloudWatch)
• Distributed systems experience
• SLI/SLO/SLAs knowledge
• software development
• backend or SRE/infrastructure experience

Nice-to-Have Signals

• Terraform/Terragrunt
• Performance engineering background
• AWS familiarity
• IaC (Terraform/Terragrunt)
• performance engineering

Work Setup

• Location: Bangalore, India
• Work mode: HYBRID
• Remote scope: UNSPECIFIED
• Employment type: Full-Time

Not Specified in JD

• Visa sponsorship
• Salary range
• Remote eligibility
• Education requirement
• Certifications

What You'll Likely Work On

• Write and ship production‑grade code to fix bugs, boost performance, and raise reliability across multiple services.
• Profile APIs under load, identify bottlenecks, and implement fixes at code, database, or configuration level.
• Design, evaluate, and document infrastructure solutions, weighing trade‑offs in architecture and tooling.
• Build tooling, automation, and test frameworks for traffic simulation, stress testing, and regression prevention.
• Enhance observability by contributing logs, metrics, dashboards, alerts, and distributed tracing.
• Define and measure SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs to align reliability goals with business outcomes.
• Participate in on‑call rotation, incident response, root‑cause analysis, and run‑book maintenance.
• Collaborate with US‑based engineering teams, providing overlap support during late‑evening IST hours.

Good Fit If You Have

• Enjoys deep debugging of live services and complex algorithmic challenges.
• Thrives in late‑evening IST overlap with US counterparts.
• Values clear, proactive communication for both technical and non‑technical audiences.